Scholarship
Books
Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States. University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Asian American Jews, Race, and Religious Identity,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89, no. 3 (2021): 978-1005.
“The Changing Jewish Family: Jewish Communal Responses to Interfaith and Same-Sex Marriage,” with Brett Krutzsch. American Jewish History 104, no. 4 (2020): 553–577.
“Christmas in the Room: Gender, Conflict, and Compromise in Multi-Religious Domestic Space,” Religions 11, no 6 (2020): 281.
“Prescribing the Diaphragm: Protestants, Jews, Catholics, and a Changing Culture of Contraception,” American Religion 1, no 2 (2020): 27-52.
“Chrismukkah: Millennial Multiculturalism,” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 25, no. 1 (2015): 82-109.
“Negotiating the Interfaith Marriage Bed: Religious Difference and Sexual Intimacies,” Theology and Sexuality. 18, no. 1 (2012): 19-41.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
“You are Jewish if You Want to Be: The Limits of Identity in a World of Multiple Religious Practices,” in Beyond Jewish Identity, eds. Jon Levisohn and Ari Y. Kelman (Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2019), 17-35.
“Family Planning is a Christian Duty: Religion, Population Control, and the Pill in the 1960s,” in Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the 20th Century United States, eds. Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton, and Heather White (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), 152-169.
“I Chose Judaism, but Christmas Cookies Chose Me: Food, Identity, and Familial Religious Practice in Christian/Jewish Blended Families,” in Religion, Food, and Eating in North America, ed. Benjamin E. Zeller et al (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 154-172.
Encyclopedia Articles and Primary Source Readers
Commentary on “Paul Cowan with Rachel Cowan, Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage” in The New Jewish Cannon: Ideas and Debates, 1980-2015. (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020) 346-351.
“Religion, Modernity, and Assimilation in America” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America, ed. John Corrigan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Peer reviewed.
“Race and American Judaism,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America, ed. John Corrigan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Peer reviewed.
“Contraception and the Sexual Revolution,” in The Social History of the American Family, eds. Lawrence Ganong and Marilyn Coleman (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2014).
“Interfaith Marriage,” in Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expressions, eds. Gary Laderman and Luis León (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2014)
“Adolescents and Children,” in The Encyclopedia of Religion in America, eds Charles Lippy and Peter Williams (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010).
“Marriage,” in The Encyclopedia of Muslim–American History, ed. Edward E. Curtis IV (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2010).
“Education,” in The Encyclopedia of Muslim–American History, ed. Edward E. Curtis IV. (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2010).
Book Reviews
Review of Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism: Studies and New Directions, edited by Jacob Ari Labendz and Shmuly Yanklowitz in Journal of Jewish Indentitites. 14 no 1 Jan 2021, p 124-126.
Review of The Public Work of Christmas: Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies, edited by Pamela E. Klassen and Monique Scheer. Material Religion 17 no 3 May 2021, p 432-434
Review of Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Post-War America, by Rachel Kranson. Material Religion, (2019) 387-388.
Review of Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics, by R. Marie Griffith. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, (2018) 853-856.
Review of Coming of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted by Patricia Keer Munro. H-Judaic (2017)
Review of Losing Our Religion: How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children, by Christel Manning. Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion, 55:4 (2016) 877-878.
Review of Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage, by Hillary Kael. Material Religion, 12:3 (2016) 393-394.
Review of Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America, by Leslie Dorrough Smith. Theology and Sexuality, 21:2 (2015) 167-169.
Review of Kosher Christmas: ‘Tis the Season to Be Jewish, by Joshua Plaut. American Jewish Archives Journal, LXV, 1&2 (2013): 114-116.
Review of Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture, by Eileen Luhr. Practical Matters 2 (2009).
Review of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom, by Tisa Wenger. ARC, the Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 36 (2008): 139–141.
Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
2021 — Henry Luce Foundation grant for Advancing Public Knowledge on Race, Justice, and Religion in America through a project called “Jews of Color: Histories and Futures”
2020 — University of Colorado Boulder Center for the Humanities and Arts Faculty Fellowship (awarded 2020 to be taken Spring 2022)
2020 — Cashmere Subvention Award in Jewish Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from the Women’s Caucus of the Association of Jewish Studies
2019 — Faculty Success Grant, University of Colorado Boulder Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion Program
2019 — Finalist: National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council
2018–2019 — Young Scholars of American Religion Center for the Study of American Religion and Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University, led by Sylvester Johnson (University of Virginia) and Sally Promey (Yale University); 1 of 10 junior scholars selected for two-year series of workshops on research and pedagogy
2018–2019 — Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Early Career Fellowship
2018–2019 — The Rabbi Theodore S. Levy Tribute Fellowship, American Jewish Archives
2018–2019 — Sophia Smith Collection Travel-to-Archives Grant, Smith College
2018–2019 — Rockefeller Archive Center Research Stipend, Rockefeller Archive Center
2018 — Albright College Faculty Research Award
2017 — Leonard Hastings Schoff Publication Fund Subvention Grant, Religion in America University Seminar, Columbia University
2016–2017 — David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality, John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC (awarded 2015)
2014–2015 — New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Research Grant
2012–2013 — Robert W. Woodruff Library Fellowship, Emory University
2011–2012 — Northeastern Consortium for Faculty Diversity Dissertation Fellow and Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, Allegheny College
2005–2011 — Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Emory University
2008–2010 — Graduate Fellow, The Sloan Foundation Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL) at Emory University
2008–2009 — Bernard and Audre Rapoport Fellowship, American Jewish Archives